Paper and other bags



i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE H. HOLMES,OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PAPER AND OTHER BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,925, dated June 6, 1882.

Application filed February 14, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, JEssE H. HoLMEs, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Paper 'andother Bags, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved bag; Fig. 2, an edge sectional elevation; and Fig. 3, an edge sectional elevation, the folds of the bag being opened; and Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, views illustrating the construction heretofore in use.

The same letters denote thesame parts.

The present invention is an improvement more particularly in such as flour-bags, upon which it is customary to imprint inscriptions. The bags referred to commonly have what is styled the satchel-bottom, the construction of which is indicated in Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, Figs. 4 and 5 being respectively a side and an edge sectional elevation of the bag before the final fold of the bottom is made, and Figs. 6 and 7 being respectively a side and an edge sectional elevation of the completed bag-that is, the fold a of the bottom A of thebag is finally turned upon the outside, I), of the body B of the bag, as seen in Figs. 6, 7. Now, with the class of bags under consideration, it is desirable to have the inscription appear not only on the side of the bag near the bottom, but also on the bottom of the bag; but when the bag is folded, as described, the fold a comes above or over the lower end of the side of the bag, and where it is desirable to have a portion of the inscription, for the brands which are demanded by the trade cover all the available space upon the side of the bag, extending from the extreme upper end thereof, after allowing for the tying, to the extreme lower end thereof, and considerably below where the fold a comes. Hence, that portion 0 of the inscription .0 that is'to appear on the side of the bag necessarily has to be printed at a diiferent time from 7 that c appearing on the bottom of the bag. This materially increases the cost of the bag, and to obviate this difticnlty, and enable the entire-inscription to be printedat a single impression, is the aim of the present improvement, which consists in the manner of completing the bag at the lower end thereof prior to its being printed.

D, Figs. -1, 2, 3, represents the improved bag, and, saving the improvement, being of the customary description. The fold d of the bottom d, however, in place of being upon the outside, d of the side d of the bag, is tucked inside thereof, coming between the side (1 and the side 01*. Thus made, the extreme lower end of the side d is folded inward, and the fold d ofthe bag projects beyond the lower end of the folded side 6F, and the lower end, 11 of the folded side (1 is exposed equally with the fold d and the portion 6 of the inscription E can be imprinted on the bag at the same time asthe portion of.

The inscription on the bag-bottom is mainly for the purpose of indicating the contents of 'the bag when the latter is arranged endwise folded side d substantially as shown and described.

- JESSE H. HOLMES. Witnesses:

O. D. MOODY, CHARLES PIoKLEs. 

